Posted
by
timothy
on Thursday October 06, 2011 @11:46AM
from the privacy-vs-curiosity dept.

First time accepted submitter microphage writes "Mark Pilgrim, author of many 'Dive into ...' books and guides, has — as the saying now goes — 'committed infosuicide,' which happily isn't like the real sort. Except it affects the info that you've created. Let's hope Dive Into HTML5 has some sort of permanence."

I do recall he was great at mixing in humor and entertainment into an otherwise dry and toilsome subject matter so may I say that I sincerely hope he hasn't given up on technical aspirations. At the time that book was one of the best general resources out there for HTML5. I'm sad that his github repo for the book may only exist at mirrors now.

Deleting your Facebook and Twitter accounts is one thing, setting every website you've ever worked on to return HTTP 410 errors is something different entirely. Mark decided to take all his balls and go home and made damn sure you knew he was going.